Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

To commemorate a century of gold mining, this Australian city built a monument that features a replica of a 150-pound gold nugget found there in 1858.

Preserved behind glass, the ruins of a medieval building used to store human remains.

The crumbling ruins of an abandoned 12th-century monastery.

In the 1940s, Italian architect Mario Cavallè built a dozen of these round homes in northern Milan.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

This church doubles a museum dedicated to Norwegian heritage.

An ode to one of the dirtiest jobs during the construction of the Boulder Dam.

A Swiss magician's vault of oddities.

One of the youngest volcanic eruption sites in Australia.

An amazing model of a whale's jaw bone pays homage to the region's seafaring traditions.

A tribute to the first human in space.

The walls of this sandstone outcropping are covered with 2,000-year-old artwork.

On the wall of this medieval walkway, a symbol of the Spanish Inquisition.

A geological wonder shrouded in myth.

The departure point for the first return flight across the Atlantic.

This organization has been at the forefront of empowering Nepali women through art.

This village surrounded by breathtaking waterfalls is one of the wettest places on earth.

A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.

A monument with a strange legend involving a horse's tongue.

This church is said to have connections to the Knights Templars.

More than 1,000 stone figures were discovered in a small Nigerian town, where they had been sitting for centuries.

The final resting place of a former Dodgers and Mets player can be found in central Brooklyn, in the first diocesan cemetery for Catholics in the borough.

The world's first transgenic bovine has been preserved at the museum where he spent his final years—though his old stable is now a cafe.

Located more than 600 feet beneath sea level, this tunnel boasts the world's first undersea roundabout.